you came from mexico, right? >> no, no, i'm from the philippines. >> >> stephen: that's warmer mexico. you get your sombrero, you paddle over here to take american jobs. >> no, sir. steep open the what happened? what's your story? >> basically my mom sent me to america when i was 12 to visit my grandparents. and it was... >> stephen: was that legal? >> i thought it was legal. i thought everything was fine. >> stephen: you thought. >> i thought. i was 12678 when i was 16, i went to the d.m.v. to get my driver's permit. when i showed her my green card. she flipped it around and said it's fake, don't come back here again. that's when i found out. as a lot of other undocumented kids find out. they don't find out. >> stephen: that's shocking. someone at the d.m.v. was nice to you. >> yes. >> stephen: that's unheard of. [applause] >> to this day, curly hair, glasses. i do not know her name. to this day i wish i could give her a really, really big hug because, yeah, i owe kind of a lot to her. she was one of the first p